Dual booting Solaris 10 with Vista

I got Compaq 3702 with Win Vista - It was a pain for 2 months to installl Solaris - Every time I would Install Solaris - Grub will show Windows but on booting gives messages winload.exe missing or corrupt. Then I found out QTParted - system utility ( or gparted ) partitioned 160 GB HDD into 5 partitions.
-Made Solaris as in-active partition
-Activated Vista as active partition ( Vista has bug of not letting others OS to be installed unless it is active boot partition. )
-Using Vista DVD run Vista repair install ( Only MBR )
-Boot to vista Desktop ( Your Grub and Solaris seems lost )
-Download easyBCD 1.7.1
-Install - go to add boot option
-Make an entry for Sun Solaris in boot menu
-Reboot vista - It will boot using Vista boot menu and will give option to Either Solaris or Vista.
Cheers - Lets me know if does not work
Om Shanti !!
Manty - Mangal Tripathi

Sounds good to me - it did work.

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